Tom Henry

Tom Henry

About: Tom Henry is a Michigan native who began his 30-year journalism career at The Bay City (Mich.) Times. He created The (Toledo) Blade's environment beat when he was hired by that Ohio newspaper in 1993. He has won numerous awards for his Great Lakes coverage and began writing a column about environmental issues for The Blade's Sunday news analysis section in 2007. He was elected to the Society of Environmental Journalists' national board of directors in October, 2010, and has received fellowships from SEJ, Vermont Law School, the Montana-based Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources and Ohio State University's Kiplinger Public Affairs Reporting Program. A four-day series on Great Lakes climate change he wrote in 2008, which included research in Greenland, was recognized by The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, the Knight Science Journalism Tracker and Columbia Journalism Review. Tom has contributed chapters to two books (one on Florida rivers and the other on nuclear power) and essays for scholarly magazines such as Harvard University's Nieman Reports and Michigan State University's EJ magazine. He currently is an editorial writer for The Blade.

Stories by Tom Henry:

Ohio’s compromise to law that would’ve gutted the region’s water compact (Nov 29 2011)

Energy policy and water interconnected (Oct 17 2011)

Lake Erie on pace for record toxic algae crop (Aug 25 2011)

Gov. averts Great Lakes attack; I’m still embarrassed to be a Buckeye (Jul 18 2011)

Give DTE Energy props, but Great Lakes pollution control is agonizingly slow (Jun 23 2011)

Double standard: Nuke and bus operators (May 23 2011)

Earth Day deeply rooted in Great Lakes (Apr 21 2011)

No U.S. levees for Hurricane Carp (Mar 9 2011)

It takes more than money to restore a watershed (Feb 11 2011)

Controversial carp detector now peer-reviewed and published (Jan 10 2011)